Butter-cabinet



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BUTTER CABINET.

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BUTTER-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentiNo. 332,903, dated December 22, 1885.

Application ijled J'uly 15, 1855. Serial No. 171,722, (N o model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. HIGHFILL, of Boston Station, in the county of Crawford and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Cabinets, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved butterbox, showing it opened and the lid supported open. Fig; 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the ice-pan. Fig. 5 is a view of one of the butter-sections, and Fig. 6 is a view of the package for each piece of butter.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to refrigeratorboxes for transporting butter or similar perishable goods; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the outer box, which is preferably rectangular, provided with a hinged lid, B, countersunk handles C O at the ends of the box, and with a suitablehasp and slot, D, for the att-achment of a lock. The upper edges of the end pieces of the box are recessed, as shown at E, to correspond to the shape of hooks F, which are hinged to eyes G in one end of the recesses, and which engage eyes H upon the inner side of the lid with their free hooked ends, the said eyes fitting into recesses I in the upper edges of the end pieces when the lid is closed.

J is the ice-pan, which is preferably of metal, and provided with cross-cleats K at its ends, with which it rests upon the bottom of the box. This ice-pan is divided into sections by means of longitudinal partitions L, and the bottom of the pan has perforations M, through which the melted ice-water may pass out of the pan into the bottom of the box, which is likewise provided with perforations N for the escape of the water. The end pieces of the ice-pan areA provided at their upper edges with hinged handles or straps O, which may fold inward ush with the upper edges of the end pieces when the butter pans or sections are placed upon the ice-pan while they may be folded up and serve as means for lifting the pan out of the box whenthe buttersections are removed. The butter pans or sections l? are subdivided, by means of longitudinal and transverse 'pairs of partitions Q and R,'into butter-cells S and air-cells T, the butter-cells being preferably larger than the air-cells, and the partitions are perforated, as well as the bottom, so that free circulation may exist all Vthrough the box. The air-cells are formed between the pairs of partitions, and the ends of the partitions project outside of the sides of the tray or pan, so as to form air-channels all around the sides of the trays. The end pieces of the trays are provided with handles U, similar to the handles upon the ice-pan, and the side pieces of the trays have perforations similar to the partitions and bottom.

Each butter-cell contains one piece or print of butter, which is wrapped, as shown in Fig. 6, in a wrapper, V, consisting of two side iiaps, NV W, which are folded up on the sides of the print, the edges X of the flaps being folded over the edges of the print, and two end strips, Y Y, of about the same width as the edge of the print, proj ect from the portion of the wrapper connecting the side iiaps, and are drawn up along the end edges of the print, extending beyond the top edge of the same, the free ends Z of the said end strips serving as handles for the purpose of placing the butter-prints into the cells or removing them from the same.

When the ice-pan has been filled with ice and the butter-cells have been lled with or from condensed warm air entering the box will pass down to the bottom of the box and pass out through the perforations in the bot tom of the saine, so that everything in the box will be kept cold and dry.

The prints may be easily manipulated by means of the handles formed by their wrappers, the trays and ice-pau may easily be lifted out of the box or placed into the box by the folding handles, which will be out of the Way when thetrays or pan are in place, and the lid may be held open by the hinged hooks, while they will rest in their respective recesses when the lid is closed without interfering with the closing of the lid. The prints are preferably placed edgewise in the cells, which are preferably narrow and deep, so that the prints will rest on as small a surface as possible, and thus have as mueh surface as possible exposed to the influence of the cold air arising from the ice-pan and circulating through the per forated sides, bottoms, and partitions.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. In a refrigerator-box for transporting butter, the combination of the box having a perforated bottom, an ice-pan resting upon the bottom of the box, and butter-trays having pairs of longitudinal and transverse partitions forming narrow and deep butter-cells and narrower and deep air-cells, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. A butter-tray for the transportation of butter in a refrigeratorbox, consisting of a perforated bottom, perforated side and end pieces, and pairs of perforated longitudinal and transverse partitions forming narrow and deep butter-oells and narrower and deep aircells, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

3. In. a refrigerator-box for transporting butter, the combination of the box having a perforated bottom, an ice-pan having trans.- verse cleats resting upon the bottom of the box, and butter-trays having perforatedbottoms and side and end pieces, and provided with pairs of longitudinal and transverse perforated partitions forming narrow and deep butter and air cells, the ends of the said partitions projecting outside of the side and end pieces ofthe trays, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto aiiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL G. HIGHFILL.

Witnesses:

GEORG-E D. SEATON, JOHN STEWART. 

